The Legislative View
The importance of perspective in understanding the employment of persons with disabilities.
In this podcast, the first in a series of four episodes, produced by Lois Strachan, Jeremy Opperman discusses the complexity of employing people with disabilities in the South African context.
With his characteristic frankness and drawing on his 24 years of disability inclusion experience, he unpacks the fundamental pro’s and con’s and challenges of fixating on legislative compliance rather than looking at the bigger picture of how people with Disabilities exist in society.
Jeremy outlines his trinocular perspective model which encourages business to see people with disabilities through three lenses. The legislative compliance view, the human rights view and importantly, the business case view.
In this episode, Jeremy focuses on the legislative compliance view. He provides essential insight into key legislation affecting people with disabilities and pays particular attention to the Employment Equity Act and how it has both served and failed people with disabilities.
In the next episode, Jeremy will continue the discussion on needing perspective when addressing disability inclusion and discuss the second lens in the trinocular model, the human rights view.